Mines Afire

Mines Afire Document

Based Around The Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896,
The biggest Industrial accident in New Zealand history. In this
Story, Thomas has been sent a journal from his Grandmother back in
England With the request that he fill it in over the following
12 months and then send it back to her so that she will get to know
the grandson she has never met. Includes Historical Note

Author's Bio

Susan Began writing plays for students she taught at Greymouth
High School because she could find nothing to direct that came
close to fitting the curriculum requirements. She joined with Thelma
Eakin 1997 to write and play titled the shadow of the valley about
the brunner mine disaster, subsequently published by oxford
university press, And which forms the basics of this book.  

Book Review (Brunner mine)

Based Around The Brunner Mine Disaster of 1896, The biggest Industrial accident in
New Zealand history. In this Story, Thomas has been sent a journal from his Grand Mother back in
England,
With the request that he fill it in over the following 12 months and then send it back to her so that she will
get to
know the grandson she has never met.

Includes Historical Note.

This book that we have been reading Has A lot of detail in it because I get to learn about new stuff that
happened
ages ago.

The book was Published On the 20th April 2009.

Authors - Battye Susan & Eakin Thelma

Series - My Stories

Visiting Author (Brunner Mine)

 

Through The couple of week we have been reading a book could The Mines afire and we haven't finished it all but we are near the end of the book. But Yesterday we had the writer come in and talk about the book of mine afire and we got to ask some questions as well. It was interesting to hear that basically the whole book is true. My class wanted to know if it was true or not if the older kids put the younger ones in the curtains and heaved them through the windows. But now days I don't think school kids do that now. I am happy that I got to find out a lot of information about the book And about herself. You should go read the book yourself It has a lot of detail from what happened back in the day.